When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.
BARRY MANILOWWe’ve made mistakes, But we’ve made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can’t come true? Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve, Another night like all the rest.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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Yeah, I’m old as the hills and you would think I’d be out to pasture someplace because I’ve done everything, but nothing has changed.
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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn’t even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
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I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive…And since I’m a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.
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The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you’ve got to really listen hard to somebody who’s doing a good melody and a good lyric.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they’re full of muscle. ‘Copacabana’ sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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